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Semiconductor industry spending on R&D grew by just 0.5% in 2015, which was the smallest increase since the 2009 downturn year and significantly below the CAGR of 4.0% in R&D expenditures during the last 10 years, according to IC Insights’ 2016 edition of The McClean Report.The 0.5% increase nudged worldwide R&D spending by semiconductor companies to a new record-high level of $56.4bn in 2015 from the previous peak of $54.1bn in...

IC Insights has released its Global Wafer Capacity 2016-2020 report that provides in-depth detail and analysis of IC industry capacity by wafer size, process geometry, region and product type. The report provides a ranking of the industry’s 25 largest IC manufacturers in terms of installed capacity as of December 2015. The top 10 capacity leaders are shown in Figure 1.

For SoCs supplied by Lithium-ion or alkaline batteries, the actual voltage ranges from 4.4V, down to 2.0V over their lifetime. They empower IoT devices, which are often put in sleep mode in order to extend their battery life, requiring ultra-low voltage supplies for their Always-on and retention domains.

At the IEEE IEDM conference last week, imec showed the integration of high mobility InGaAs as a channel material for 3D vertical NAND memory devices formed in the plug (holes) with the diameter down to 45nm. The new channel material improves transconductance and read current which is crucial to enable further VNAND cost reduction by adding additional layers in 3D vertical architecture.

IC Insights' 2016 McClean Report, due to be published in January, will include a ranking of the top-50 semiconductor suppliers’ for 2015 as well as the top-50 fabless semiconductor suppliers. The forecasted “post-merger” top-10 2015 IDM and fabless semiconductor suppliers are covered in this research bulletin.

The December forecast from Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI), revealed that shipments of semiconductor wafer fab equipment are expected to grow 2.5% in 2016 after 0.5% growth in 2015. However, Gartner is more pessimistic, with its October forecast calling for fab equipment to decline 0.5% in 2015 and drop 2.5% in 2016. Gartner projects the market will return to growth in 2017 through 2019.

At this week’s IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting 2015, nano-electronics research centerimec presented breakthrough results to increase performance and improve reliability of deeply scaled silicon CMOS logic devices.

Synopsys has announced the industry's first demonstration of MIPI D-PHY IP on TSMC's 16FF+ (16nm FinFET Plus) process operating at 2.5Gb/s per lane. The demonstration shows the DesignWare D-PHY receiver lane connected to Keysight Technologies' test equipment, which provided burst-mode stimulus for stressed eye testing and the transmitter lane connected to the Keysight oscilloscope displaying the transmitter's performance.

“The fact that TSMC is interested in advanced packaging isn’t 'new news'," comments Jean-Christophe Eloy, President & CEO, Yole Développement. “Over the last few years TSMC has significantly invested in flip-chip copper pillar capacities (Source: 2015 Flip Chip Business Update report, October 2015) and 3DIC stacking for CMOS image sensors and logic devices.”

Imec and Ghent University present, for the first time, arrays of indium phosphide lasers monolithically integrated on 300mm silicon substrates in a CMOS pilot line. This breakthrough achievement, published in Nature Photonics, provides a path toward high-volume manufacturing of cost-effective PICs with monolithically integrated laser sources. Such laser-powered PICs will revolutionise data transfer between future logic and memory chips.